I was meant to have an early shift today, but I've been so tired from the past few days that I couldn't get up, I sent my supervisor a quick message to let him know that I couldn't make it and I got a couple more hours of sleep.

I went for my 1.00 p.m. shift at the front gate and it was very slow. A couple of the other volunteers and I took a couple of breaks to go walk around and maybe catch a few sets here and there. Ljubicic-Gonzalez...

I had the morning parking lot shift again. It wasn't as busy as yesterday, but somehow it seemed to take longer to pass. Afterwards I ate lunch and then I met up with LCeh from MTF to watch the Blake-Gasquet match and Roger-Seb after.

My friend and I managed to sneak LCeh into the lower level of the stadium, but we weren't allowed to sit down (they do seat fillers sometimes where volunteers can get to sit down in the seating...

My computer hard drive has been acting up again which explains the lack of reports for the past 3 days. So this is a summary of what I can remember from the past 3 days.

Day 4 (Tuesday, Roger's birthday) - Into the bowels of the tournament.

Today I was stationed in the parking lot, getting people from their cars into the shuttle buses. It's a lot less hectic than the drop-off point and there are very few impatient people - everyone is looking forward to...

So today work was less eventful. I was working a different shift - the front gate, basically welcoming people and handing out maps like candy. Today's parrot line was &quot;Hi, would you like a site map?&quot; which is a little shorter and less annoying than yesterday's line.

There was a much larger crowd today because it was 'Family Fun Day' and they had a lot of entertaining booths for the kiddies and their parents. I made a couple more new friends over lunch (disappointment...